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It is believed that Plasmodium falciparum, one of the parasites that causes malaria, was carried by the people from Africa that were enslaved and brought to the New World between –s.
https://asm.org/articles//september/the-history-of-malaria-in-the-united-states (https://asm.org/articles//september/the-history-of-malaria-in-the-united-states)